Magic Moments’ “A Night at Nick’s”

Opening Thursday, March 22, through Sunday, March 25: For nearly 30 years, Magic Moments has presented an annual all-comers pop-music revue that integrates disabled and able-bodied cast members of all abilities, ages and experience. The organization raises money for companies that provide services for those with special needs. This year’s event is described as “a love story of passion, pirates, and pianos.”

At the Anschutz Family Theatre at Kent Denver School, 4000 E. Quincy Ave., Englewood, 303-607-7555 or magic moments’ home page

National touring production of “Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash”

Opening Friday, March 23, through May 13: This musical revue tribute, part of both the Denver Center Theatre Company’s and Denver Center Attractions’ season subscriptions, allows fans to revisit more than three dozen of the legendary Johnny Cash’s best-known songs to tell the journey of a man in search of his soul.

Heritage Square Music Hall’s “One Enchanted Evening”

Opening Friday, March 23, through July 22: Grandpa falls asleep reading bedtime stories to the kids, and his dreams take him to visit Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and many other fairytale characters. Followed by the Music Hal’s comedy and music revue.

Theatre ‘d Art’s “Reservoir Dogs”

Opening Friday, March 23, through April 8: This all-new innovative, “immersive” adaptation of Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic film is set in a Colorado Springs warehouse, where the audience finds itself in the middle of a diamond heist gone wrong. The audience wanders, exploring their environment, experiencing the drama from all sides. The lights go dim. A car pulls up to the bay door, and you hear people yelling outside. The story unfolds, complete with dying men and conspiracy theories. The audience can choose whom to follow or not at its own discretion.

The Avenue’s “Dave Shirley’s Rattlebrain” ***

Opening Friday, March 23, through April 14: Dave Shirley, founder of the lamented Rattlebrain Comedy Theatre, performs a one-man show combining comedy, music, video, poorly performed magic, shadow puppetry, juggling without hands and fake ventriloquism. Ever since Shirley was 16 years old juggling on the streets of Denver and Boulder, he had a vision for a show that would incorporate all of these useless skills.

LOCAL Theater Company’s LOCAL Lab New Play Festival

Opening Friday, March 23, through Sunday, March 25: This new company presents three staged readings over three days by three new voices in the American theater, as well as conversations with the authors, parties and a master playwriting class. The reading lineup:
7 p.m. Friday: “100 Planes by Lila Rose Kaplan,” post-show discussion facilitated by Denver Post film critic Lisa Kennedy. Lieutenant Kay McClure, a hotshot pilot, meets her match in Major Anne Clarkson. As Anne pushes Kay harder and harder, questions arise. What exactly is Anne training Kay to do? Featuring Tony-nominee Jeanne Paulsen with Jessica Robblee, Mare Trevathan and Matthew Blood-Smyth. 6 p..m. Saturday: “Elijah: An Adventure,” by Michael Mitnick. Post show discussion moderated by Stories on Stage artistic director Anthony Powell. 1922: Elijah, a broke student from Brooklyn, arrives in Paris and becomes an accidental Don Juan overnight. While hunting his idol, a reclusive composer of ballets, Elijah is swept into a life-changing summer of sex, opium, and blackmail. The cast includes two-time Emmy winner Bill Mooney, with Jamie Ann Romero, Jessica Robblee, Diana Dresser, Lorenzo Gonzalez, Matthew Blood-Smyth, Brian Wiles, Leah Watson, Shana Dowdeswell, and Mare Trevathan. 2 p.m. Sunday: “Small Prophecies,” by David Myers. Post-show discussion moderated by Colorado Shakespeare Festival artistic director Philip C. Sneed. A first kiss. A prank turned ugly. A moment of truth between father and son. How does a boy become a man? How do you stop your child from becoming something terrifying? A story about the myths we tell ourselves and how they shape the people we become. The cast includes Lorenzo Gonzalez, formerly of (Tim Robbins’) Actors’ Gang in LA and recently relocated to join the faculty of Naropa, Brian Wiles, Diana Dresser, Leah Watson, Ben Morrow and Shana Dowdeswell.

Permanent Transient Productions “The Zoo Story”

Opening Friday, March 23, through April 8: Denver’s newest theater company debuts with Edward Albee’s first play, a savage one-act about a seemingly innocuous meeting at a park bench between uptight family man Peter and garrulous
brute Jerry. Soon an unimaginable crime transpires. This company is founded by actors Anthony Bianco and Kevin Lowry, and director Margaret Whittum, all members of Denver’s Visionbox Ensemble.

Midtown Arts Center’s “The Sound of Music”

Opening Friday, March 23, through June 2: Classic Rogers & Hammerstein musical based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp. In 1930s Austria, young Maria leaves her convent to serve as governess to the seven mischievous children of Navy captain and widow Georg Von Trapp. Score includes “Do-Re-Mi,” “My Favorite Things,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” “Climb Every Mountain,” “Edelweiss.”

Arvada Center’s “Chess: A Musical”

Opening Tuesday, March 27, through April 15: Set against the backdrop of a chess tournament, this rock opera uses the game of chess — with all of its power plays, manipulations and sacrificial pawns — as a metaphor for the contemporary conflicts in love and life as well as global strife and peaceful coexistence. With lyrics by Tim Rice (“Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Evita”) and music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (“Mamma Mia!”), this is the regional premiere of the celebrated London version of the musical, best known for producing the Top-40 pop hit, “One Night In Bangkok.”